The Preamble of the I.W.W. The working class and the employing class have nothing in common. There can be no peace so long as hunger and want are found among mil lions oi working people, and the few who make up the employing class nave all the good tilings of life. Between these two classes a struggle must go on until the workers of the world organise as a class, take possession of the earth and the ma chinery of production, aud abolish the wage system. We find that the centreing of the management of industries into fewer and fewer hands makes the trade uni ns unable to cope with the evergrow ing power of the employing class. The trade unions foster a state of af faira which allows one set oi workers to be pitted against another set of workers in the same industry, thereby helping to defeat one another in wage wars. Moreover, the trade unions aid the employing class to mis lead the workers into the belief that the working class have interests In common with their employers. These co...

[?] By Lang-Son Smith. ? WI1011 you wore ;i 'aJiJule, iind .1 was a tisli, In tlie I'alou/Jc liino ; And side toy title in the ebbing tide, We spiawled through the ooze and S1U1H1. Or skii-tcii'd with many a Caudal flip, In iIk; depths of the Cambrian fen. My heart was rife with the joy of life, l'\ir 1 loved jou oveii tlieu. Ai indU'S.s wi- lived . miiidl ss we loved^ And iiiindlcss nt lust we died, Ami deep in the rift of the Carradoc drift, V\'r .slii.'iiborttl sido by -siile in the lathe of time, Tho hot lands heaved amain, 'Till wo drew our breath from the womb of death, And sprang to life again. \Ve \\-_.iv jiuplii'iians sou led and tailed, odf And drab as a dead mairc Viand : Wo coiled at ease 'neatli tue dripping ti-ees, Or crawled tlirough the mud and sand. Croaking and blind, with oui- three dawed feet Writi ny a hui.i.nuige dumb. VhUi iie\or is sp;irk in the empty dark. To hint at a lite to come. j ! * I Happy wit lived and happy we lored. j -And liappy wo died once more,...

THE REBEL'S VOICE. OJi ! toil-worn .slaves of greed and gain, Why minister to ease. From childhood on to manhood's prime, A .slothful class, to please 't Too long we've bent our backs to toil, . In thraldom's, .sweat and pain ;' Join h;i-ids forJiwith in one 'reat light, All obstacles disdain. UV1I tell the f»e that ' -Might i.s itighV And lliyht is Might as well, And meet tho embattled hosts oi Greed, Who've made our earth a hell. Their ranks arc thin opposed to you. -. 'Tis cowardice to say, ''We've failed In-fore and must again, !- With such base thoughts away. Brave deeds have never yet been done. Hy those who look behind, Tin? voice of fear sounds loud in ears, That turn to catch the wind. Tho past is gone, the future's yours, Arise ! be men to-day : The present's need i.s 'Power to will' (This can't be bought for pay). Tho sIkhIo*. ot slaves who died of old, Will from their tombs arise, And prove with history's dusty page. That freedom never dios. 1 Wiih hunger's spoctro gaunt...

OUR STANDPOINT. ? 4 ? Billy Hughes' ''33ig Onion/' ap parently, does not smell sweet to the 'fivvies of Xew South Wales. They 'nave refused to place themselves un 'lei the guiding influence of the ap pointed twelve. Socialist Philip Snowden, M.P-. ;vu»lfl appear to be mad because the *-ilTrai;et.tes are playing heil with the buses' property in' the 'Old Dart.' | iHlip wants to 'substitute reason _';»? ')!?«( o force.' The kind of .. , i«'h.-:xjii ' the bosses use when their ?'lerests are threatened is like that 1 1 the ii«voss when her young is at- ? Lhirsty. Verily, n change of name -loes 'not change the colour of the politician. One cannot visit a picture show in Sydney nowadays without being compelled io '-7.c far a time on the weak and effeminate countenance of George Rex. The masters are be in sorely puzzled these times to keep the flame of ' loyalty' ! burning. Sir Arthur Si?u!ey. who has a M'ce little job as Governor of Vic toria, addressed some immigrants who landed in Melbo...

- '. _ ''. ''^a— 'Wara— ^ ? innMi.ii^«lfcimiB.»iwim /„ ^iMaaMmaet* W ***W*1» - ' I ?' ? ? - ' ? - 'I I.W.W. Men Jailed at Port PirieJ Tito following is from tlx- Sydney, 'Sun' of Jii!ie 2-jtii : — j l'OHT P1RIE, Thursday. | ??A fcrioiis p.')ftit:-)ji ]):).s arisen ovo; i,.-i')!)L-is of tin* lndnstiv.il Workers of 1 I-!... World churning tho right to hold ? meetings iu the public .streets. I Charles Hecves, the orj*vmi-o'\ was I r.'i-.iirly softened in 10 d;..vs' imprison? ? in is t- for ivi using t.o move on when I v ???{Ui'-ti'il to do so by a constable. I Since then members of the oiganisn I i-'nii have d/fied the police hy. holding 1 i mooting in tlu- si ret?; every isjglit. I l-'ive of their number wore on Wednes 1 day sentenced to 23 (l:iys, and they' 1 told the magistrate that they intended I spealiinji a-jain when released. I Members of the MV.W. havo arriv K ??-(] from Broken Hill and Adelaide to I coniinue the free speech campaign, ;md B ;i v. iiv received from the Hairier ...

OUR OWN PRESS. We have it Now. Will You Help to Keep it Going ? To All Australian Locals and Wage Workers. New Zealand Notes. Fellow-Workers, The .- ;!l,.s of DIRECT ACTION in Sydney Local has at last succeeded ^ ^U-] ' ''TV' ^ 'V?^' All lebels an- asked to send their in Its efforts to instai an I.W.W. press orders aloni;. ;-. wo have sot our own jirimiiiji press over here now. Any thing for publication or any notes for the pirper are welcomed. M-. Gun-on, th;- hig (.hiof of the Auckland Harbor Board, after inflict ing himself upon the long-suffering people of Sydney, ha.* returned to God's Own. He says through the very veracious columns of 'Oly 'Orton's 'Erald, tb.it tin- I.W.W. is no figure in Ausirnlia. So sayeth It. Semple. tlw head sprang of t?io financial end ot' the Municipal Milkers. DIRECT ACTJOX «..vt-nds a hearty invitatiun to these very estimable gen tlemen. t«» call on their next trip ovpr here at 330 Castlereagh-street. and have a look fit the l-ooks. j Bit: batfln.'.*...

UNION SCABS? The follwing appeared in the- 'Syd- ney Morning Herald,' of June 25: BUTTE, June 24. As a sequel to the riotous incident of Juno 13, when tho Industrial Work ers of the World and their sympathiser:-; drove a trades union parade back tfi the Miners' Union Hall, another ser ious disturbance occurred yesterday. A crowd of l.W.VV. miners marched against the hall, but before they reach ed it were fired on by the Sheriff's de putics, who killed ouo man and wound ed two others. This was the signal for a pitchet battle to commence., and jt raged round tho hall for some time. There was much shouting for dyna mite among the crowd, and an attempt was made to blow up the hall, but th. charge failed to do any great amount of damage. Then a band of armed men went to tho Stewart mine and boldly brought away several boxes of dynamite. The guns of the deputies prevented t: new supply being placed effectively, and two more explosions occurred without much damage being done. Later on, how...

EXPLOITATION. ITS GENESIS, EVOLUTION, AND REMEDY. To umluratijnd th« cause of the in dustrial unrest which characterises the reign of capitalism, it is necessary to understand the wonoiuic jwsition of lh-» workers in modern Kociety, an well as thuir relation!; to (lie ruling classes m former epochs?. Sine* primitive man first discovered ihs»t a man was more valuable alive than dead, all who were captured in war, instead of i-ping killed as pre viously, wore kept as slaves ; thus dividing the. human race for the first time, into two classe*;, masters and slaves. Then the war between the op yrcssed and the oppressed liegan to be w;iged through countless centuries till the dawn of the new era shall settle the conflict. The masters of the machines of pro duction and the natural resources are tho masters of tho world. While the capitalist class own and control indus try they own and control the lives of tho working class, reducing them to tfio position of wage-slaves. Slavery has always ...

A WORD TO ADELAIDE SLAVES. The attention paid by you tu the speakers of the I.W.W. is suggest ive of your appreciation of the prin ciples expounded from our platform. We recognise the great difficulty of our task in trying to propagate our ideas to Ihe workers of various cen tres where our propaganda has not yet reached. Being wage-workers like yourselves, we have not the means of carrying on our education al work to the desired extent. Having studied the situation from every standpoint, we have come to the conclusion that industrial Union ism is the only hope for the working class, and as we, like you, are the victims of capitalism, we deem : our duty to deliver this message wherever workers are exploited, i You have had our literature antii our speakers amongst you r.ow fc: some time, and the attendance at our meetings is a sign that our pro paganda is making headway. But something more than this is re quired of you. Why not join our ranks and help us to carry the light further af...

BROKEN HILL COMMISSIONS THAT DON'T COMMIT. By James Pope. i he idea ol a bunrh 01 workers pnticnth waiting while a repjwsm talive of the boss :md a oonsorv.i live from their own ranks, 'aryiK1 ihc point'1 b.-lorc :i chairman whv ip drawn from the ranks of lh« hangers-on ol the cipitalist sys tem, is enough lo innke any inteili oent slave sick. Merc in Broken Hill, m royal com mission has been appointed to en quire into the working conditions in the Barrier mines. Four years ago, we had also a rommission to enquire into the fr;ic!ure question. At the time we were using- Cape fracture. Notwithstanding liv fact ih.il the commi.'-:.on found (what every miner knew), 1 hat :h. | said fni-'ture was more injurious i-'i ihc health of ihe miners than an; j other fracture in the market, mo:-:! of the mines refused lo supply air. j other. I The members ol' the A.?\f.A. re- j fused to use direct atiion because] :hey had an agreement- with these] 'humanitarian'7 masters. '1 heir ' 'great' politic...